Combined seat and article-receiving chamber



Dec. 20, 1949 I w. LISTER 2,491,671

COMBINED SEAT AND ARTICLE-RECEIVING CHAMBER Filed July 2, 1945 TML. Lisler:

Patented Dec. 20, 1949 COMBINED SEAT AND ARTICLE-RECEIVING CHAMB Warren L. Lister, Chickasha, Okla.

Application July 2, 1945, Serial No. 602,887

3 Claims.

This invention relates to a combined seat and article-receiving chamber; and though it is intended to be especially useful and convenient for any person who is repairing or adjusting or investigating the lower parts of an automobile or motor-vehicle, it is also applicable and convenient to be used in connection with many other Jobs in homes and factories, shops, etc.

One object of the invention is to provide a seat that is so low that a person sitting on it can reach low parts more easily and comfortably than if sitting or kneeling on the ground or surface on which the automobile or other machine rests.

Another object is to provide such stool or seat with a base-plate that serves not only as a secure foundation and anchorage for the elements superposed thereon, but also is a secure anchorage for four castors that are so widely spaced from one another that they preclude over-turning or tilting of the device when the mechanic or other occupant leans in any direction while seated thereon.

Another object is to provide a seating surface that is provided with a seat-back that is so low that it permits the occupant to lean far back with but little or negligible discomfort or interference, but which is high enough to aid the occupant in trundling the device rearward while being seated on the seating surface or on a cushion (not shown) that is then seated on the seating surface.

Another object is to provide the seat-surface with a bead that extends along the left-front, front and right-front; that is only a minor fraction of an inch high, viz., less than a half-inch; and that adjoins the right-rear and left-rear ends of the seat-back where the forward inclines of the latter terminate in portions only a little higher than the bead; thereby serving as means to abut against the pants-seat of a person who occupies the seat-surface and is moving forward so as to trundle the device forward; or serving as means to trundle the device rightward or leftward by moving his pants-seat rightward or leftward.

Another object is to provide in very convenient position to the hands of the occupant, a tooldrawer or receptacle for wrenches, screwdrivers, and other hand-tools, nuts, bolts, etc., so as to save time in seeking such necessary articles that may be scattered around.

A further object is to provide, in a device of this type, compartments at opposite sides of the tooldrawer, wherein can be placed an electric battery and a light bulb, which latter, when properly charged and interconnected, can be brought out thru a hand-hole and supported in various positions by appropriate means (not shown) that may be seated in any elected one of the openings provided therefor adjacent to the four corners of the base-plate.

Another object is to provide, with the minimum number of previously separate parts, a device of this type that is exceedingly useful and convenient and comfortable to the occupants; capable of being easily trundled in all horizontal directions; and provided with a carrying handle that is properly positioned to prevent the contents of its drawer and other compartments being spilled when carried by said handle.

Other objects and important features are pointed out or implied in the following details of description, in connection with the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the device that constitutes one form of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device seen in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan or under-side view of the seat-plate per se.

Fig, 4 is a top plan view of the base-plate the arcuate wall and the drawer, the latter positioned slightly forward of its normal closed position.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional detail view taken along the line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

Referring to these drawings in detail, similar reference numerals refer to similar parts in the several views and are referred to in the following explanation and description, as follows:

Though the device may be composed of any appropriate material or materials, the present embodiment may be considered as made of readily available and comparatively low-cost wooden boards and sheet metal secured together by ordinary commercial nails, bolts and rivets;

and as many kinds of wooden boards are likely to warp, and as extra-broad boards are usually expensive and not always available, I have indicated the base-plate as being composed of three relatively narrow boards that are matched and joined edge-to-edge; and it is unnecessary that these boards be doweleol or glued together, because of the securing means inherent in the securing bolts 8 and their respective nuts, in combination with the arcuate wall 9 and the seating plate or seat-board Iii; these being interengaged in the mutual relation now explained:

With any appropriate kind of circular or arcuate scoring tool (not shown) pivoted at the center 0 and carrying a rotary or fixed scoring bit at a proper distance from said center, the arcuate scores H can be formed in the upper side of the base-plate and lower side of the seat-board ill to depths of about to according to the hardness of the wood or other material in which these scores are made; and, at the ends of these scores, a hand gouge may be used to widen the scores as seen at l2 to provide cavities for the respective looped ends of the sheet metal wall 9 to be seated in. The loops I3 may be made permanent and strong by use of rivets I4 or other appropriate means, for the sheet metal is desirably relatively thinand light-weight; for instance, 28 to 32gage" galvanized or enameledsheetiron or steel.

Ihe loops respectively surround front rods 8- that extend thru bolt-holeswl5.:inxthewseat board or plate l and thru bolt-holes 6 in the baseplate 1, while the intermediate and rear parts of the wall 9 extend around and*'-substaiitial'ly against the rods 8 that are intermediatelyeand;

rearwardly disposed; so the rods 8 and scores combine with the nuts I? (Fig. 2) for serving as securing means to rigidly and fixedly unite the i baseeplate the seat-*pl'aterandtthe arcuate :wall: so .lras wto' form' storage receptaclesuwhose' top is S. a

substantially circular seating surf-ace..of2.any:ap-

s propriate: size. Thelooped sends I31 are spaced 1 about) 6 .inches1 from.. oneeanother touprovide -a...-passage' orentrance forrpermitting .a'xdrawer isl8eto be seated 'on.;.the baseeplate. and; be: pulled forward andpushed rearward. The front-upper ffpaltilbf :the .drawer; as here. shown,zlisi of sheet 'zmetalhandis turnedainward: and downwardat- 'l 9 Ato; provide. a handle and to provide. a .hand'ehole 20, so the user can. have freeaaccessi th'erethru to .vthe acarrying handlezZl which ilatterist'anaele- .im'ent of the seat-plate 10,5.providedibyncutting the handrhole 22 nearethe front edge :ofithe seatplate I0; so, when desirable-to carry thez stoolor mechanics:;low chair from place to place, iitcan be lifted and .carriedby'this1handle 2l without :possibilityaof spillingthe iidraweri or :.:any.: other contents of the hollow structure or combination. However: -Each .user: has the. preference; of carrying or trundling the .szcombinationaafrom eplace ato place,. .for it is .providedewith Jcasto rs'. 23

Whose: shanks 24 are fitted in -.:b'ores;25. '(EigL-d) so .the. .device:1can be pulled: by user-of: a ropeior :cord or'strap thruthe openings 20.. and 22; or'can be trundled by the .occupantofiithaseati-while seated thereon. The seat-back26and2frontbead -21 aid the i occupantdn 'ttrun'dling; the :device :to 'tvarious positions; initheimanner texplainedjnthe foregoing.

Spaces .or chambers 28 are -..provided at opposite. sides. ofmthe drawer:.:l.8,: f-oraicontain- Jings articles; of various 5. kinds tosbe usedzbymcnupants of thes se'at platep especially: for-Leontaining an electric battery," light-bulbsiandricir- 'cuit-swires, etc. so $015 gain" readymaccesswtoi the contents ofJ-these chambers'r28, hand-holes.29.are provided-,so the :user can'reach thru these-handholes-for (bringing out the. contents) without :rising .from the seateplate; butv merely leaning-.to :right or left so asto uncover thewopening 129. .to be used. If a flexible cushion: is used on the seatplate lllyit may be designedtohave openingsthat communicate with those of the seat-plate illgaor may be only wide enough to cover-the inneredges 'of the openings'and the; surface therebetween.

:Holes 0r sockets 30' are provided: nearuithe corners of thecbaseeplate .to receive a. shank or lower end portion of an (upright support for'an electric light (not shown) The seat-back 2t, beaded strip Z'handthenails or other fasteners that securethemto theperiphery of the seat-plate l0, cooperate withithe-elements 1, 8 and 9 to prevent detrimental warping of the seat-plate while also reinforcing-the latter 4 against splitting or cracking; and in a reciprocal manner, the elements 8, 9, l0, l1 mutually contribute to prevent the base-plate from warping 0r cracking or detrimentally separating at the joints where the several boards are joined edgeto-edge. Therefore, this mechanics seat is exceedingly strong, rigid, durable iand Igenerally practical; whileb'eing composed of relatively few, simple and low-cost primarily separate parts than 'lo 'can be assembled and united by any physically =*ab1e'.persontof ilittle mechanical skill and train- I claim the following as my invention: *1:-In "a'* combined seat and article-receiving 515 chamber, the combination of a base-plate provided with a series of openings at points spaced "'from'one another in an arcuate line, an arcuate wall having its lower :edge seated on said baseplate: and extending along; anz'arcuaterlineiaround Y and adjoining said-'openings;.a seateplateihaiving a portion seatedon the upper :edgevofi said arcuate wall, a" series of securing rods extendingithruethe said openings of said base-plate. and: seateplatmat "positions. substantially. against the. inner-surface vofesaid wall;theends or upright-edges of said wall being spaced from-onezanothenand secured to .two. of .said rods so .as .to. provide: an entrance to isaidicchamber ;:..and; means cooperativeiavitlu said "rods rsoas .toifixedly securexsaidewall 'to;-said:.haseplate and'seat-plate.

.2.:.:In the combintztiondefinedaby r claim .::.,1, the base-plate being provided with an arcuate egroove .01. score. :in which (the lowen. edge-10f; said --wall is seated, said seateplate' heing' providediwlth s. an arcuate: groovexor score in whichgdheiupper 'edgeof the arcuate wall is seated.

,3. :In combination, L-2n';baSej:-'p1&11,an arcuate zwall '.on.. the s'base -plate; in: 1 av-proper's delationrto iprovidela I drawerepassagex at its;' fnontnpa'rhaa 40 .seatz-plate onathezuppen edge-bf saidarcuateaviall, means to rigidly unite said base-plate andlzwall sand: 'seateplate, a drawer normally-.lonsaidnbase- -.platezin a proper positionsto be passed inwai'dralid outward thru said. drawer-passagaxcsaid sdrawer being considerably: narrower; thaniithedrlisfance b'etween .qopposite rightwardly and idef-twazrdly bulged.sideswofesaidawall so. thereare chambers provided at opposite sides ofl-the drawersfon eon- :tainingaarticles;said seat-plate; being; provided 5 with hand-holes above the respectiveclchamhers efonpermitting the users. hands ;to passitherethru .for removing; and replacinguarticles with respect to. saidichambers.

"WARREN cLi; LISTER.

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